"[T]he people are not to be disarmed of their weapons.
They are left in full possession of them."
Zacharia Johnson (speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention,25 June 1778)"The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed." ~Alexander Hamilton

If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good. ~ Thomas J. Watson, Jr.

I believe the officer did an incredible job. I am amazed that nobody stopped to help the officer, it looks like they were on a heavily traveled road, I reckon that is the world we live in. I think both of those guys could have used some pepper spray, I am sure this was mentioned during their review of the situation. Glad the LEO came out OK, one of those inbred's could have easily pulled a 12 ga out of the back of that truck.

A lot of people knock LEOs. I wonder how they would like to stop a car for speeding and walk up to it not knowing what might happen.
IT's a risky job. Im supprised no one stopped to help the LEO. Got to give these guys a lot of credit.

Man, oh, man. I am none too soft most of the time on our boys in blue, but that officer right there exercised monumental and commendable restraint.

Why the attitude of those guys? You get pulled over, most of the time you're going to know why. You're also going to get the opportunity, most of the time, to make easy for everyone or hard on yourself.

Why choose the latter?

I might (very passively, as in go limp, wiggle, etc.) with an LEO who was arresting me for something, that IMHO, didn't merit arresting. If he was fixing to shoot me for no good reason I'd fight back more.

But jeez, Louise, those guys were just plain-old, messed-up wrong and they're very lucky they weren't hurt or killed.

my questions to the LEOs on here is this: If we would happen to see you in a bad situation... 1)would you want us to stop to assist you? 2)How would you want a civilian to approach and Identify themself to you as someone there to help you? 3) If you have drawn your weapon is it also appropriate for us to do the same?

I saw this posted on another forum a couple of months ago. My comments at that point were that he did a good job in the sense that he dominated them physically (showing the importance of training and conditioning) but that he should have killed them both. Instead of the baton, he should have drawn his sidearm and as soon as that shovel came out he should have shot the SOB's.